Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Tirhogar, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tirhogar
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.14039, -7.16454
- SMR number
- LA005-011001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Simple undivided nave and chancel church (LA005-011) built with roughly coursed limestone blocks and rubble. In poor repair and no cut stone left in situ. Sundial and pieces of cut stone of late medieval origin in graveyard.
Rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 86m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall as indicated on current ed OS 6-inch map. Church in N quadrant of graveyard. Stile and coffin stand off centre to W in S wall of graveyard beside gateway and a second stile in NW angle of the graveyard wall. Majority of headstones located to the S of the church, one of these memorials has a sunburst depicted on the top half of the stone , has been previously described as a sundial but may have been a memorial with a sunburst symbol on the top half of the stone which is located to the SW of the church (LA005-011). Unusually this memorial is facing W unlike all the other memorials in the graveyard that are facing E.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.